I’m an information-aholic, always keeping an eye out for things that help create more peace of mind and less stress. So I’m creating this category for things I’ve found to be helpful in my own life. The topics might be all over the map-from health to security to fitness to pets. I hope you will find them to be helpful.

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Gregg Braden explains why manifesting has more to do with your feelings than anything else. There is a great deal of research from HeartMath Institute that now shows what ancient civilizations have always known and practiced. Unfortunately, many people in the west continue to ignore this ancient wisdom and do things the hard way.

In analyzing some of my most miraculous seeming results over the years, every one of them happened when I was able to feel the experience as if it was my reality “now,” not by imagining it was going to happen. I felt what I was observing in my mind.

The real problem with that is that we have strong emotions about what we are experiencing that we want to change. So we continue you to feed that vibration into our reality. We get pulled into the pain of what our experiences or memories cause. It is a physical reaction that happens automatically when certain things get triggered. There are many conscious and subconscious reasons for that. Sometimes you have no idea consciously, why it happens.

That is why the work I do with clients is so powerful and life-changing. We find the energy that is causing that reaction and then dissipate it. Many times creating a new reality requires that you do what I call, “The Manifesting Dance.” You simply have to learn to sway back and forth with those goals, including goals related to health issues, where things aren’t happening easily. You have to sway between clearing the old and creating the new until you are able to shift out of that old vibration and stay in the new one. That is when your life changes dramatically.

It works well to create as long as you can maintain the feeling that you are living it now. When you lose it and fear or doubt creeps in, you have to find the memory, belief, perception or experience that is pulling you out of the vibration you want to maintain.

You should constantly be asking what you are feeding the field of energy surrounding you because of what you are feeling. Do you want more of those feelings or less of them coming into your world?

This is a wonderful breathing technique recommended by Dr. Andrew Weil. There are many health benefits. I do this often and find it to be a little addictive because I feel so good when I do it faithfully.

Energy medicine explained by Dr. James Oschman is pretty easy to understand. Once you understand that everything works because of vibrations of energy, it is easier to see why energy work is imperative for maintaining health and living a successful, contented life.

Your emotions create vibrations of energy that help shape the circumstances of your life from health to the kind of friends and opportunities you attract into your world. It’s interesting to hear Dr. Oschman talk about the fact that it is vibrations of energy that allow us to hear, smell and even move our bodies around.

In the video, you will hear it said that…

“For silly reasons, we’ve left energetics out of our medicine. When we ignore energy, we miss 99% of reality. In fact, what can you comprehend about anything without energetics? When we leave energy out of our biomedicine, we miss a vast amount of our healing potential. We’ve been wearing blinders. We’ve been using tunnel vision for 100 years.”

Energy healing is what gave me my life back after years of traveling around the country, going to doctors and clinics in the hope of discovering why I never had energy or felt good. When I started using energy work, which comes in many modalities, my stress lowered, my immune system strengthened and I healed things that medical doctors had told me I’d have to live with.

That is why I am so passionate about energy healing and why I was willing to train in so many techniques that can help others going through what I did years ago. I was full of despair and feelings of hopelessness until I started using techniques that healed the underlying cause of the stress. Then I started seeing miraculous results where my symptoms disappeared and that allowed me to feel better about everything.

Any technique you use that puts your body in a state of coherence rather than the stress response you probably live with so much of your day, is allowing your immune system to do the job it was designed to do.

Energy work, or energy medicine, is simple and easy to do once you understand how to do it. The process would be identifying something you want to heal, creating an intention that lets your body and the Quantum Field know what you are working towards as an end result, giving a number between 0-10 to the symptoms you experience so you can monitor the changes, and then doing some form of energy healing that shifts your vibration. That can be pointing the energy from your hands towards certain areas around your head as with The Healing Codes, or tapping on acupressure point as with EFT, or sitting in various positions that shift your energy as shown in some of Donna Eden’s work, doing certain movements with your eyes as in EMDR, or you can even use your breathing as in the breathing technique Dr Andrew Weil demonstrates that he says can cause a shift in your energy that leads to internal changes that can show up as improved health too.

If you want to know how to fix lower back pain, I’d like to share my story. My life seemed like it had ended because the doctors told me I had to live with my lower back problem and that it would only get worse as I got older.

It amazes me that I never hear anyone talking about the way I healed because it was miraculous. I hope you’ll hear me out and think about what I have to say. I will never forget what it was like to live in agony every day, afraid to do much of anything.

I first learned about the body’s flow of energy and the value of energy work out of complete desperation. I opened my mind because I couldn’t accept that I would never have a normal quality of life. It seemed like if I even thought about reaching for something, my back would just go into spasm. Then I was laid up for weeks. And when I finally could stand up, I felt like a twisted pretzel.

I heard about a man who worked with the body’s energy system and traveled hundreds of miles to see what he could do. I walked out feeling like a new person because my lower back pain was gone. I could even stand up straight. That was only the beginning.

It would take about another 10-15 years of research before I really hit gold. AS crazy as it seems, I found that underlying stress, self-talk, negative thoughts, anger, seemed to be the real culprit. When I started working at getting control of my emotions, amazingly, my back actually healed to the point of not even being a problem.

Check it out. Pay attention to what is going on in your life. See if you don’t notice that when things aren’t going so good emotionally, you have a lot more pain in your lower back. What I discovered about the correlation between pain and emotions or stressful thoughts was pretty unbelievable. I got to the point where I could stop a spasm from happening just by shifting my thoughts. Sounds crazy but it is true!

My back seems perfectly normal these days and there is very little I can’t do!

If you want to know how to fix lower back pain, fix the stress in your life and get control of your emotions and how you feel about life. You’ll probably be as amazed as I was. And much happier! If you want some help with that, it’s my health coaching specialty.

As a Wellness Coach, I teach how to live an empowered life by knowing how to self-heal. There is an unbelievable amount of influence that comes from what you believe about your vulnerabilities. If you believe you will get sick, it increases the chances that you will. If you believe you will stay well or heal quickly, chances increase that you will.

The power of emotions is clearly seem in my demonstration I share in The Strawberry Story. It is in my free ebook of “seed stories” that show that you are creating life as you go through it. (Register on the right if you’d like my stories and access to my free trainings and tips.)

With the insanely high numbers of people with cancer these days you don’t have to go far to find someone with a story about their own experience. There are many reports from people who had the belief that they were healing or going to get better. They talk about those going through the same things at the same times who focused on the prognosis instead of healing and they didn’t heal.

I will never suggest that anyone ignore their prognosis or stop doing what their doctor suggests. Everything I coach others to do is about working with your energy. Energy is at the foundation of everything that exists so if you work there, you are actually able to make real lasting changes. What goes on in your mind and heart is something that you can take charge of when you know how. Your emotions and the energy they create has everything to do with everything!

Here’s The Problem And Solution

Gregg Braden is a brilliant scientist and he tells it like it is. In this video, he nails the real problem. Knowing the problem makes the solution pretty cut and dried. We have to wake up and accept that there are false assumptions that have thrown us off track. We have to start incorporating some of what has been learned while we still have a chance.

As Gregg states, there has never been another time in history where civilization faced the amount of threats that we face today. I’ve been hearing that for quite a few years now and it won’t change until we change how we relate. We must realize the power we’ve been given as co-creators, and change the course of things. But we have to use the gifts we’ve been given. We must become conscious, present, aware and start creating in a new way.

Gregg says, “The false assumptions of science have led us to believe we are separate from ourselves, powerless over our bodies, we’re separate from one another, we’re separate from the world around us, that civilization is linear, it’s happened one time and we’re the pinnacle and most sophisticated civilization that’s ever been here, and that violent competition is the way to solve our problems.”

“Those are the old ideas, the false assumptions. Our own science is now telling us everyone of those is incorrect. The new science is showing us that we are deeply connected to our own bodies, that we’re deeply connected to one another, we’re deeply connected with the earth, that civilization is cyclic. And if we have the wisdom to recognize the cycles from the past, we can learn from that and apply what our ancestors learned to our world today.”

Your Negative Feelings Are Your Best Friends

When working with clients, I do my best to convey this idea that negative feelings aren’t the enemy. They are really our friends because they have a message to give us. If you get that message, you can truly heal and move forward feeling happy and excited. Those are the vibrations that move you closer to your goals and/or the consistent health and happiness you want for your life.

Only when your feelings are ignored or stuffed down inside do they become a problem. New discoveries show that the problem can easily become health problems as a result of stress.

I believe my history of self-healing stems from the fact that I am constantly identifying the uncomfortable feelings I experience and doing what it takes to shift them to energy that resonates in alignment with how I want my life to heal.

My results continue to fascinate me because once you understand it, self-healing is really so simple if you do it at the first sign of a symptom. I have practiced the method I teach long enough to have developed some advanced skills, just like anyone can. So I can literally watch a cold, flu or injury disappear before my very eyes in a very short period of time.

I loved what Gregg Braden had to say about this subject and even that negative feelings are your best friends.

Watch even a few minutes of the video to feed your brain something to balance out the disempowering news we’re fed all the time. You have great personal power that you can tap into anytime you choose.

I just ran across something that let me know I’ve had a false sense of security for quite sometime.

When I buy something online, I always look at the address to make sure the url starts with https:// before the domain name. You will also see a padlock icon.

Oops. That doesn’t’ really mean a thing these days according to an article I just read. All the scammers have to do is buy a domain name and an SSL certificate. Easy enough.

There are really 3 levels of SSL certificates and to be safe, they have to have an “Organizationally validated” (OV) or an “Extended validated” (EV) certificate. You can’t tell that from the address bar. But there is a way to check it out further.

If you don’t have something in place to warn you about phishing or when sites aren’t safe, Norton has a free tool you can use to get their assessment. Submit the url in question, as of this time anyway, and it will give their feedback. I just tried it and it gave me the information without having to jump through any hoops.

You can read the full article onSSL certificateshere if you want it straight from the horse’s mouth.